Nursing caries in Head Start children, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands: assessed by examiners with different dental backgrounds.
J Clin Pediatr Dent
; 16(2): 124-8, 1992.
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The purposes of this study were to determine the prevalence of nursing caries in 3- to 5-year-old Head Start (HS) children on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands and to assess the reliability of examiners with different dental backgrounds. A dentist, hygienist, and nondental HS personnel participated in a 1/2 day training session (lecture and workshop) and then independently conducted visual examinations for caries of the maxillary anterior teeth including nursing caries. Twenty-three HS personnel examined a total of 375 children; the dentist and hygienist examined a random sample of 74 and 73 children, respectively. Seventy-one children received all three independent examinations. Reliability was assessed by percent agreement, sensitivity, specificity, and kappa value. The dentist found 41% of the children had caries of the maxillary incisors, which included nursing caries. The percentage of children with nursing caries was 12%. There was strong-to-good diagnostic agreement between the dentist and hygienist. The HS personnel also found that 12% of the children had nursing caries, but the diagnostic agreement between the dentist and HS personnel was only good-to-fair.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Caries Dental
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Caribe
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Caribe ingles
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Islas virgenes de los estados unidos
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Clin Pediatr Dent
Asunto de la revista:
ODONTOLOGIA
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PEDIATRIA
Año:
1992
Tipo del documento:
Article
Pais de publicación:
Singapur